Kicking Off the Holiday Season

It's November and my favorite part of autumn has come and gone. We had an amazing turnout at the bookstore for our Halloween celebration, and now it's time to kick off the next three holidays. Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's.

The past few days, I've spent a lot of time checking out recipes and craft projects on the electronic pit called social media and the internet. I think my own Facebook messenger is full of ideas I've wantonly sent to myself. How many of those recipes and craft projects will I accomplish? Maybe two or three unless I get a boost of elf energy here in the next couple weeks! First, I probably should start with removing the witch and skeleton and rotting jack-0-lanterns off the front porch.

I'm really looking forward to some of the events scheduled over the next few weeks. This Saturday, November 14th, we will be at Dash 90 Winery in Warren, Indiana. There is a Black Friday event at the shop where we will be open from Midnight to 2 am. Swayzee Public Library in Swayzee, Indiana and the Converse Historical Society in Converse, Indiana during the month of December.

Once the holidays are over and done, we will be rolling into a new year, and I'm going to be hunkering down and writing my little heard out. I have lofty goals for 2027 starting with finishing up Uncommon Heather. My fingers are just itching to wrap that one up with a lot of twists and turns and romance that can only come from a time travel. I promise, it's going to be an exciting roller coaster down wells and into lakes, up in the Appalachians and into the Scottish Highlands. Watch for it...but today, I am sharing with you the cover! Don't you just love it?

Okay, I have some advertising to work on for our bookstore authors then I'm going to buckle down and work on my Novel November project which is Imbolc. Time to put in the ear plugs and ignore the whining red drama queen who thinks because the wind is blowing the flag that there are intruders into the lawn. Well, there are...they are called moles and I think they have bred with prairie dogs from looking at the sized of their mounds in my front lawn.

Take care, have a wonderful week, and take some time to yourself to read a good book--or two!